Sunday, January 19, 2014

Brocade has sold its network adapter business to QLogic for an undisclosed sum.

The deal includes the entire Brocade network adapter product portfolio:

Brocade 1860 Fabric Adapters

Brocade 815/825 and 415/425 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters, or HBAs

Brocade 1010/1020 Converged Network Adapters, or CNAs

HBA and CNA mezzanine adapters for select OEM partners.

The companies also agreed to work together closely to affirm their commitment to the storage area networking industry, collaborate on the development of the next generation Gen 6 Fibre Channel technology, and strengthen the Fibre Channel vendor ecosystem for the benefit of mutual customers.

Brocade said the sale enables it to focus on meeting the data center networking needs of customers through next-generation fabrics and software defined networking -- the two critical building blocks for modern data centers.

"This transaction continues the execution of our business strategy, which will further enable Brocade to focus on core networking technologies in the data center in order to better serve our customers and partners and to drive better value for our shareholders," said Ken Cheng, chief technology officer and vice president of Corporate Development and Emerging Business at Brocade. "This transaction also benefits our customers through the two companies firmly committing to the success of the current Gen 5 Fibre Channel technology as well as Gen 6 technology, which is now in development."